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HOW TO PRONOUNCE

Tour De Force

/ˌtuɹ.dəˈfoɹs/

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What does Tour De Force mean?

noun

  1. A feat demonstrating brilliance or mastery in a field.

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IPA pronunciation

/ˌtuɹ.dəˈfoɹs/

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Other dictionary pronunciations

/ˌtuɹ.dəˈfɔɹs/
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His love is constrained, his hatred is artificial, and rather UN TOUR DE FORCE, a slight ostentation and exaggeration.
Friedrich Wilhelm NietzscheBeyond Good and EvilTranslated by Helen ZimmernProject Gutenberg ebook #4363
This tour de force, never attempted before, was merely an exemplification of the value of the phonograph not only in establishing at first hand the facts of history, but in preserving the human voice.
Frank Lewis Dyer; Thomas Commerford MartinEdison: His Life and InventionsProject Gutenberg ebook #820
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As with Farinelli’s singing before the princesses, Sheridan’s renowned Begum Speech, and other such examples, the fortunate condition of its being for ever lost to the world invested the deceased Mr. Yeobright’s tour de force on that memorable afternoon with a cumulative glory which comparative criticism, had that been possible, might considerably have shorn down.
Thomas HardyThe Return of the NativeProject Gutenberg ebook #122